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First Edition of The Secret Birthday Message; Signed by Eric Carle
CARLE, Eric.
The Secret Birthday Message.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1971.
First edition. Thin quarto, original illustrated boards. With the original die cuts present. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Signed by Eric Carle on the title page. A very sharp example.
Price: $750.00
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"Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color": First Edition of the Collected Poems of W.S. Merwin in Two Volumes; Each Signed by Him
MERWIN, W.S..
W.S. Merwin: Collected Poems 1952-1993 & Collected Poems 1996-2011.
New York: Library of America, 2013.
First edition of the collected poems of this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original black cloth, two volumes. Both volumes are signed by W.S. Merwin on the title page. Both volumes are fine in fine dust jackets.
Price: $750.00
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"In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer": First Edition of Galapagos; Signed by Kurt Vonnegut with a Self-Caricature
VONNEGUT, Kurt.
Galapagos.
New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1985.
First edition of Vonnegut’s eleventh novel, which questions the merit of the human brain from an evolutionary perspective. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows light shelf wear. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut with a self-caricature on the half-title page. Jacket illustration by Jeffrey Adams.
Price: $750.00
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First Edition of Dreams and Sky; Signed by Freeman Dyson
DYSON, Freeman.
Dreams of Earth and Sky.
New York: New York Review of Books, 2015.
First edition of this sequel to Dyson’s 2006 The Scientist as Rebel. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Freeman Dyson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $750.00
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First Edition of Oscar Hammerstein's South Pacific; Inscribed by Him
HAMMERSTEIN, Oscar and Richard Rodgers; Joshua Logan; James Michener.
South Pacific. A Musical Play.
New York: Random House, 1949.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Adrian Foley With my best wishes Oscar Hammerstein.” Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by H. Lawrence Hoffman.
Price: $750.00
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First Edition of Gore Vidal's The Judgment of Paris; Signed by Him
VIDAL, Gore.
The Judgment of Paris.
New York : E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1952.
First edition of this classic coming of age story. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Gore Vidal on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear. Jacket design by George Salter. Rare in this condition and signed.
Price: $750.00
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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference”: First edition, first printing of ROBERT FROST'S MOUNTAIN INTERVAL
FROST, Robert.
Mountain Interval.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1921.
First edition, first printing of Frost’s first poetry collection published originally in America. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. First state, with the sixth and seventh lines on page 88 both reading, “You’re further under in the snow—that’s all—,” and the twelfth line on page 93 reading, “When I told her ‘Come” (Crane A4). In near fine condition.
Price: $750.00
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Rare First Edition of this "comprehensive survey of current mechanism, practice, and theory" Stock Market Theory and Practice
SCHABACKER, Richard Wallace.
Stock Market Theory and Practice.
New York: B.C. Forbes, 1930.
First edition, second printing of the first of Schabacker’s three major works on the stock market. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket with some rubbing and wear.
Price: $750.00
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"I have sought a human society reduced to its most basic expression": First Edition of Claude-Levi Strauss' A World on the the Wane; Inscribed by Him
LEVI-STRAUSS, Claude.
The World on the Wane.
New York: Criterion Books, 1961.
First American edition of Levi-Strauss’ experience among tribes in Brazil. Octavo, original brown boards, illustrated with 48 pages of photographs and 48 line drawings. Inscribed by Claude Levi-Strauss on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows light wear to the extremities. Translated from the French by John Russell.
Price: $750.00
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First Edition of Joseph Priestley's The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated
PRIESTLEY, Joseph.
The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated: Being an Appendix to the Disquisitions relating to Matter and Spirit. To which is added An Answer to the Letters on Materialism, and on Hartley’s Theory of the Mind.
London: J. Johnson, 1777.
First edition of one of the major metaphysical works of 18th-century British polymath Joseph Priestley, which influenced the 19th-century utilitarians John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer. Octavo, bound in three quarters 19th century calf over marbled boards, all edges marbled. In excellent condition, contemporary name on the title page, a nice clean example.
Price: $750.00
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First Edition of Christopher Hitchens' Why Orwell Matters; Inscribed by Him
HITCHENS, Christopher.
Why Orwell Matters.
New York: Basis Books, 2002.
First edition of this widely acclaimed biographical essay on George Orwell. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Christopher Hitchens on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rich Pracher.
Price: $700.00
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First Edition of Alfred Russel Wallace's Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection with Some of its Applications
WALLACE, Alfred Russel.
Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection with Some of its Applications.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1889.
First edition of Wallace’s assessment of Darwin’s Origin of Species. Octavo, original cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Wallace with tissue guard, illustrated, folding map of The World on Mercator’s Projection in three colors. In good condition.
Price: $650.00
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First Edition of Abraham Joshua Heschel's Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
HESCHEL, Abraham Joshua.
Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion.
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1951.
First edition of this modern classic of Jewish theology. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some chips and rubbing. Jacket designed by Marshall Lee.
Price: $650.00
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First Editions of Each Novel in Frederick Buechner's Book of Bebb Quartet; Each Volume Signed by Him
BUECHNER, Frederick.
Book of Bebb Quartet: Lion Country, Open Heart, Love Feast, Treasure Hunt.
New York: Atheneum, 1971-1977.
First editions of each novel in the author’s acclaimed Book of Bebb quartet. Octavo, 4 volumes, original cloth. Each book is inscribed and dated by the author. Each are in excellent condition in dust jackets that show only light wear. A very sharp set.
Price: $650.00
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"May you always have fair winds and sunny skies": Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People
CARNEGIE, Dale.
How to Win Friends and Influence People.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1936.
Early printing of one of the best-selling books of all time. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To M.J. Proscia May you always have fair winds and sunny skies Dale Carnegie.” In good condition.
Price: $650.00
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"Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived": First Editon of Seeing; Signed by Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Seeing.
New York: Harcourt, 2006.
First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s sequel to Blindness. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed and dated by Jose Saramago. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
Price: $650.00